intel_panel_fitter command not found

Jon Danniken danniken at comcast.net
Tue Sep 12 02:38:33 UTC 2017



On 9/11/17 6:23 AM, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Montag, 11. September 2017, 05:15:18 CEST schrieb Jon Danniken:
>> On 9/11/17 1:01 AM, Volker Wysk wrote:
>>> Am Sonntag, 10. September 2017, 14:25:15 CEST schrieb Jon Danniken:
>>>> Hello all, I am running Kubuntu 14.04 on a Toshiba Satellite L675 (Intel
>>>> i3 380M, Ironlake).
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to correct for overscan on the HDMI output of the laptop, so
>>>> I installed intel-gpu-tools in order to use the intel_panel_fitter
>>>> application.  Unfortunately, while there is a man page installed for
>>>> intel_panel_fitter, running the command itself comes up with "command
>>>> not found".
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas why intel_panel_fitter isn't found after installing
>>>> intel-gpu-tools?
>>> Try "apt-file search intel_panel_fitter".
>> Thanks Volker.  That returns just a listing of the man file:
>>
>> $ apt-file search intel_panel_fitter
>> intel-gpu-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/intel_panel_fitter.1.gz
> You have done "apt-file update" before, haven't you...
Indeed, it was the first thing I did upon installing apt-file this 
morning. :)
> I've found this in the man page (https://www.mankier.com/1/intel_panel_fitter):
>
>      "In the future, there will be support for this feature inside the Linux
>      Kernel."
>
> Perhaps this is your case?
This is possible, but in such a case how would I access it?
>
> Otherwise, you could try to build intel_panel_fitter from the sources:
>
> cd /tmp
> apt-get source intel-gpu-tools
> cd intel-gpu-tools-1.14
>
> There appears tools/intel_panel_fitter.c, which should be what you are looking
> for.
Thanks Volker, I will try this along with the configure/make steps from 
your subsequent post.  Much appreciated!

Jon





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